Village Shalom

Donor walls for a Jewish nursing home

Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Year: 2000
Materials: Painted tile

Two walls for a Jewish nursing home, one with the text of the dedication and one with a tree and pomegranates.

The text

כי היכי דשתלי לי אבהתי שתלי נמי לבראי

As my ancestors planted for me before I was born, so do I plant for those who will come after.

Talmud, Ta'anit 23a; the wall carries the English

PreviousCongregation Beth Israel All Donor Walls

Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. Eulogies and tributes are collected under Remembrances.